Fifties Chix: Travel to Tomorrow by Angela Sage Larsen Review

Travel to Tomorrow by Angela Sage Larsen

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I thought that this book was going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. I love time travel books and whatnot, so I thought that I would just fall in love with this story.

Not so. This book was just okay. The plot wasn't phenomenal, it was actually pretty boring. It was hard to keep track of the intimate details of the five girls' separate lives and not confuse them. The characters were genrally pretty boring, and the historical aspect wans't very inriguing. I mean, the plot just lacked a lot. Very slow-paced, and it never really picked up or became interesting.

I didn't hate it, I mean I could get some enjoyment out of it, it just was onlt decent. Overall, there really isn't much to say about this book besides the fact that it was lacking a good storyline.

Read it if you want to try it for yoursef. Maybe you'll like it a little more than I did. I started it in April, but got sidetracked because of how boring this was. I only picked it back up again on August 9th. Glad I'm finally just done with it.



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COMING SOON: Spring Break Tales-Thursday

Thursday was a big day, so I'm afraid I don't have time today to post everything beause it will take a long time to formulate. But do not worry! I will very slowly but surely finish every last little part of the post by Monday and you can see the beautiful post! I just have a really long to-do list for spring break, so I figured this should probably not be priority until they are done. I'll keep you in orbit (a saying from the 50's that I learned from the book Fifties Chix: Travel to Tomorrow)!

Spring Break Tales-Wednesday

Today I did a fair amount of reading. I finished Betsy and the Great World and started Betsy's Wedding as well as Fifties Chix: Travel to Tomorrow. And then I started on my great adventure.

First you should know that this summer is going to be my summer of independence and reading in which I will finish at least half of the unread bought books on my shelf and learn lots of skills to being a more independent person. And today I baked a cake.

Now normally this would not be a very tough feat. Still new and exciting, but not tough. But these were not normal circumstances. Let me start from the beginning here. I wanted to bake something today, whether it be dog biscuits for my dog or a cake. So I took out my Strawberry Shortcake cookbook from when I was really little that I have always planned on making every recipe from (maybe I'll make them this summer!) and found a recipe for Angel Food Cake's vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream frosting. After looking all over our crazy kitchen for baking powder, a flour sifter, toothpicks, and an electric mixer, I FINALLY found everything I needed (except for a few things like powdered sugr, milk, and 2 sticks of butter which I later got at the store). Then I stirred and sifted and mixed and poured until finally the cake was ready. While it was cooling I colored the frosting and decided to make it teal. It turned out sea foam green instead, which is alright with me. You know how sometimes people paint a picture or write a narrative about their adventures, such as I would about how I went to the beach. Well, instead I chose to bake a cake about it. The vanilla was the sand and the frosting was the sea foam. A visual representation of my fun day at the beach. And okay, maybe the frosting is a bit wack, but altogether it was pretty good. Here's some photos:

And then I went to dance and came back home to eat more cake. YAY!

Spring Break Tales

Okay, so I know it's a bit late since my spring break is already halfway over, but I just realized that posting my day-to-day adventures similar to what Kristen Miller does on her blog Bank St. Irregular which you can visit here would be a great idea (not to mention a lot of fun!). I will be posting my adventures in daily segmented posts. It just goes to show how much more you can learn when you don't have to go to school. There's lots of things school can't teach you, plus you get have a whole heck of a lot more fun while you're learning these things!

P.S. Review of Betsy and Joe and Betsy and the Great World coming soon. I finished them with all of my ample time to increase my intellectual level and have fun all at the same time. And with the time lying ahead I will finish reading Fifties Chix: Travel to Tomorrow and Betsy's Wedding. If I'm lucky, Mockingjay and Northanger Abbey!